Infosys sacks three employees held on fraud charge

Bengaluru, March 9 (IANS) Global software major Infosys on Monday sacked three of its techies who were arrested on a bribe charge levelled by the Income Tax Department, said a company official.

"The three employees have been terminated after a thorough internal investigation," said the city-based IT behemoth in an email to IANS.

Admitting that the company was aware of the allegations against the accused who have been found violating the company's policies by the tax authorities, the official said the company takes any breach of its policies and code of conduct seriously.

"We are cooperating with the authorities," the official added.

The three accused are Renugunta Kalyan Kumar, Prakash and Deveshwar Reddy.